Photo by Eric Medsker
Virginia is a multidisciplinary designer, writer, and art director working in Brooklyn by way of Austin, Baltimore, and London (UNC B.F.A., MICA M.F.A.). Previously at Canary, Huge, Pentagram, and The British Museum, she currently runs her own studio focusing on personal and commissioned projects.
She has also taught design courses at the Art Institute of Austin, led workshops at MICA and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and been a guest critic at Parsons. In her spare time she’s Creative Director and Co-founder of Into Quarterly and studies with Phil Schultz at The Writers Studio.
Get in touch: vsasser@gmail.com
select studio clients
Oscar Mayer
Care/of
Luminary
Harry’s
Lincoln Motor Company
Canary
The British Museum
Tend
Orchard
Give Directly
Lloyd&Co
Amazon Web Services
Transfix
huge CLIENTS
Revolt TV
President Cheese
Comcast
Diageo (pitch phase)
Audi (pitch phase)
BlackRock
SEAT Volkswagon Group
pentagram CLIENTS
The New York Times
Herman Miller
The Barnes Foundation
Art of Shaving
Doris Duke Foundation
Sotheby's
select features
Airbnbmag (Hearst), Spring 2018 print issue
Into Quarterly, Austin, Richmond, and Minneapolis Volumes, 2016, 2017
Designing for Social Change, by Andrew Shea, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, edited by Ellen Lupton, PA Press, 2011
Ink: A Design Magazine, Volumes I and III, 2010 & 2011
Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects, by Inna Alesina and Ellen Lupton, PA Press
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, 2nd Edition, Ellen Lupton, PA Press
press & exhibitions
West Elm Austin, Artist Feature, 2016
AIGA Fresh Grad Showcase, "Recent MFA recipients chosen from some of the most respected schools in the country, dazzle with wonders from their graduate projects," 2010
MICA MFA Thesis Show, 2010
Print magazine's Regional Design Annual, Mid Atlantic Award, 2009
ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) New York, 2009
Metropolis Mag Editor's Pick at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), 2009
MICA juried exhibition, Spring 2009
published writing & interviews
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, edited by Ellen Lupton, PA Press
Hazel & Wren: The Writing Life, 2017
The Designer's Review of Books
I.D. magazine, Spanish Design Issue
University and College Designer's Association Design Education Summit Publication, 2009